Consider the following items allegedly gathered from various Gartner reports: * There are 310 billion lines of legacy code operating in the world (65% of all software). * Five billion lines of new ...
The death of COBOL, as reported widely back in the heady days of client/server in the 1990s, has been greatly exaggerated. According to Gartner Inc., 80% of the world's business runs on COBOL, there ...
The 60-year-old programming language that powers a huge slice of the world’s most critical business systems needs programmers Some technologies never die—they just fade into the woodwork. Ask the ...